Monday, June 29, 2015

Paper Towns by John Green

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"
Quentin does not live by this. He likes routine. Needs it. Thrives with it.

But Margo Roth Spiegelman is remarkable in more than one way.
And one night, she chooses Q to do remarkable things. To get revenge on unremarkable people, for being nasty, and deceitfully ordinary in all the wrong ways.
This night had been the most remarkable of Q's life.
The next day, Q decides to be remarkable. To do remarkable things. With the remarkable Margo Roth Spiegelman.
There is only one problem with that.
The remarkable Margo Roth Spiegelman has disappeared. Gone, but not without a trace.

However, this is not remarkable for Margo Roth Spiegelman, and she always returns, blaming her parents for not following her trail of half-baked clues.
Now? Q decides it is his duty to find her. She left the clues for HIM, and he was going to get to the end of them.
And thus begins the remarkable journey of Quentin Jacobsen.

This book is heartfelt, well-written, and meaningful. It reveals the truth of what it is like to feel boarded in, for the world to feel decidedly unremarkable, all the while keeping the truth a mystery.

This is the story of a girl who loved mysteries so much, she decided to become one.

-Olivia